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The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

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Amanda Palmer
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: April 30
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Everyone I know shares toothbrushes. Everyone I know sleeps on each other's floor. Everyone I know uses what they've got and shares what they've got.
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Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.
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I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.
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When you trust people to help you, they often do.
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In other words, let's give our young women the right weapons to fight with as they charge naked into battle, instead of ordering them to get back in the house and put some goddamn clothes on.
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I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.
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There was a dance that everyone was doing that was heavily skewed with the power in one direction, but the dance was basically working, and then the dance got really disrupted with the first wave of feminism, and nobody found their footing yet - not the guys, not the women.
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One thing about being a performer is you're not just doing an intellectual job behind a desk you're out there performing and being looked at, being assessed for really superficial stuff.
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The minute I spend any energy defending myself, explaining myself, or in the worst case scenario, trying to please those who are criticizing me, I will, you know, just fall off a cliff.
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Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.
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I think being a woman in any business that's dominated by men, you have your garden variety pros and cons, where you learn how to focus and harness your various powers and weaknesses for better or for good.
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I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about. I've slept with girls I've slept with guys, so I guess that's what they call it! I'm not anti trying to use language to simplify our lives.
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You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected.
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Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.
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In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.
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When you cannot joke about the darkness of life, that’s when the darkness takes over.
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How you sound. How you look. Are you fat? Those are things that could be really irritating.
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The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.
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I firmly believe in music being as free as possible. Unlocked. Shared and spread. In order for artists to survive and create, their audiences need to step up and directly support them.
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